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SUBMITTER: Makhanova A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7424133 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Makhanova Anastasia A Plant E Ashby EA Maner Jon K JK
Evolutionary psychological science 20200813 1
Pathogen avoidance is an important motive underlying human behavior and is associated with numerous psychological processes-including biases against social groups heuristically associated with illness. Although there are reliable measurement scales to assess chronic dispositional levels of pathogen avoidance, no measurement scale currently exists to directly assess moment-to-moment fluctuations in pathogen avoidance. This paper presents the Situational Pathogen Avoidance (SPA) scale, which asses ...[more]